Business: High Flyers in Trouble

The world's stock markets run with due respect for the rules of irony.

Although they are the biggest casinos on earth, the bourses often deal
harshly with men whose commercial success or personal fame has been,
sudden, surprising or adventurous. The long bear market has proved
especially distressing for dozens of onetime skyrocket securities, and
the men who ignited them. Last week three more celebrated high flyers
were in varying degrees of trouble:

Comedown for Cornfeld

Bernard Cornfeld, the Midas of
mutual funds, recently jetted to Acapulco for a summit conference with
Hugh Hefner....